Sentences with phrase «leading figures attend»

In comments released as leading figures attend the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos this week, Dr Rowan Williams said there is «little or nothing» to suggest rising gross domestic product (GDP) eases poverty levels.

Not exact matches

The Conference will give attending beverage import, wholesale and retail executives and owners a clear understanding of the industry by showcasing current data, successful stratagem and recent innovation being used by leading figures in the business.

On May 28th, 350 leading figures from sport, media, politics and business will attend the Women's Sport Trust's #BeAGameChanger event dedicated to raising the profile and increasing the impact of women's sport.

And many American midwives who attend homebirths are not properly trained or licensed, including Ina May Gaskin, a leading figure in the natural childbirth movement.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

The awards ceremony, which was well attended by leading figures and awardees from most parts of Africa, including government officials and diplomats, is the sixth in the series, having been previously held in Kenya, South Africa and Ghana.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

All winners will be invited to attend an awards ceremony on Thursday 14th May 2009 at CIOB Headquarters in Ascot, Berkshire with an invited audience of top industry figures and leading experts in innovation and research.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito defended her plans to attend the Puerto Rican Day Parade amid plans to honor a controversial figure that has led to a series of boycotts.

He is one of Hollywood's most sought - after leading men and Chris Hemsworth cut a dapper figure as he attended the 2018 Critic's Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Turning to student outcomes, however, our results provide little evidence that attending a G&T magnet program leads to improvements in student achievement (see Figure 3).

While serving at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 to 2005, I spent many months working on arts education policy, interviewing leading figures, reading the literature, and attending meetings.

I was at a conference recently and attended a panel led by six - figure authors.

BTN attended WTM 2012 where we met the top decision - makers and leading figures from the travel and tourism industry to find out all the latest developments, as well as the trends that will shape the years to come.

[7] His funeral was attended by several hundred mourners including leading figures of the London art scene.

While most of the artists from the movement attended San Francisco Art Institute, Johanson does not come from a formal art education; however, his presence in the city's famous Mission District that began with making street art, for which he often used Sharpies, marks him as one of the lead figures.

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

The show's daily talks program brought together leading figures from around the world and was attended by over 1,800 visitors.

Importantly, research has shown that children who scored high in behavioural intensity (i.e., show high activity and intense reactions to new situations and events) had a history of more medically - attended injuries when their parents reported reduced supervision but not when their parents reported closely supervising (see Figure 1).23 Thus, close supervision can counteract the elevated risk of injury typically found for temperamentally - difficult children.24, 25 On the other hand, the child attribute of inhibitory control (e.g., child can exercise self control and resist doing things prohibited by a caregiver) serves a protective function and predicts a history of fewer medically - attended injuries even under conditions of reduced supervision (see Figure 1).23 Hence, whether lower levels of supervision lead to increased risk of injury depends, in part, on the child's behavioural attributes.